On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Eric Lee Green wrote:

> On Monday 30 June 2003 06:45 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > while ! wget ftp://ftp.domain.com/pub/iso/thisfile.iso ; do
> >  echo trying again ; done
>
> As someone who operates a public access ftp site, I'd really, really, REALLY
> appreciate it if folks would at least put a "sleep 5s" into that script to
> keep it from hammering the FTP server so hard! (Granted, I don't run a high
> volume site, but a Pentium 166 can only serve so many FTP sessions at a time,
> y'know?).

I agree (especially since I still run public servers on 486-66). You must
have missed the rest of my same email that mentioned some ideas for
delays.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/